In the Jiangzhou mansion, Liu Bei suddenly said to Zhuge Liang: "Military advisor, I want to avenge my second brother and recapture Jingzhou.
As long as Lu Bu agrees to let my third brother go, we can give Dongchuan to him now."
This is Liu Bei Thoughts mulled over for days.
Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "Lord, do you think we can take back Jingzhou from Sun Quan with our current strength?
Now we have no soldiers, no generals, and even no ships.
How can we cross the Qianli Gorge River?
Attack Jingzhou.
If you said this a year ago or even not long ago, before Yunchang lost Jingzhou, I would definitely agree.
But now it is really impossible, we have no way out. " Of course, Liu Bei didn't have this plan just for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but now he really felt the importance of Jingzhou.
He urgently needed to regain Jingzhou, even if he used the remaining half of Bashu to exchange it.
Now, after listening to Zhuge Liang's words, he deflated like a deflated rubber ball.
Now he only has Zhao Yun as a general capable of fighting.
The total strength of Dongchuan is only more than 50,000.
Such a small amount of strength is not enough.
When he arrived at Yiling from Xiajiang River, he would definitely end up being slaughtered by Sun Quan.
Liu Bei stopped talking, walked out of the inner hall of the government office, came to the courtyard, looked at the sky, and let out a long sigh.
In the late summer and early autumn of the twelfth year of Jian'an, Cao forced Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to abdicate the throne and established the country as Wei.
Sun Quan also proclaimed himself emperor and established the country as Wu.
Even Liu Bei, who only had the power of Dongchuan Palm, inherited Datong and proclaimed himself emperor in Jiangzhou in the name of a clan member of the Han Dynasty.
Among the four great princes in the world, only Lu Bu has not yet proclaimed himself emperor.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lu Bu said goodbye to Cao Min, Diao Chan and his own children.
He was going to return to Chengdu to command the autumn offensive against Liu Bei.
In the late autumn of the twelfth year of Jian'an, Lu Bu commanded his troops eastward.
He personally led an army of 30,000 people from the plains of central Sichuan to Jiangzhou.
Gao Shun and Zhang Ren, who were transferred from Liangzhou, led an army of 20,000 people and marched toward Jiangzhou along the Minjiang and Shujiang waterways.
After Cheng Lian, Zhang Ren led 20,000 troops southward along the Jialing River.
At the same time, Lu Bu ordered Shangyong's defenders to dispatch a partial division of 2,000 men to recapture Badong.
On the plains of central Shu, on both sides of the Shu River, and on both sides of the Jialing River, Lu Bu's three armies encountered no decent resistance.
The counties and counties they passed were surrendered immediately after a slight attack, and there were not many defenders in the city.
It turns out that Zhuge Liang has reduced all his troops to both sides of the Xiajiang Shujiang River centered on Jiangzhou.
There are mountains on both sides of the place, which is not suitable for Lu Bu's cavalry to function.
Lu Bu joined forces with Cheng Lian in Heyang, but the waterway of the Jialing River here was blocked by Zhuge Liang with an iron cable across the river.
The Shu army built a pair of forts every twenty miles along the Jialing River, with thick iron cables running across the river between each pair of forts.
There are three pairs of such forts.
These iron chains made it impossible for ships carrying baggage to pass, so Lu Bu had to order to temporarily station troops in Heyang.
Gao Shunquyi was also blocked by Zhuge Liang in the same way at Jiangjin, southwest of Jiangzhou.
Gao Shun had no choice but to temporarily station troops here, looking for an opportunity to break through the Shu army camp stationed on the iron cable blocking the river.
Only the two thousand partial divisions from Yong on the North Road were the most successful, capturing the counties of Badong County almost without any blood.
When the rice matured in the autumn, Lu Bu resorted to his old tricks.
A group of two thousand horsemen carrying several days of dry food quietly climbed over the hilly area on the right side of the Shu army camp, and then raided down the right bank of the Jialing River to the plain area of the Shujiang Valley where Jiangzhou City is located.
However, these kidnapping horses did not find any crops to be harvested, or even a piece of land to be cultivated, so they had to return in despair.
Zhuge Liang learned about Lu Bu's army's past military history through various channels.
Therefore, he had already taken precautions against the strategy of draining fuel from the cauldron and cutting off people's food and grass that Lu Bu had used in Guanzhong and the Taihang Mountains.
He abandoned plain areas that were easy to irrigate and cultivate, and moved all the soldiers and civilians who were stationed to cultivate in the valleys and dams in the mountains east of Jiangzhou. , After receiving the reward, Lu Bu thought that the only option was to attack hard.
First, he had to remove a series of fortifications along the Jialing River and Shu River, and dismantle the iron cables blocking the rivers.
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Otherwise, it would be slow to transport the rear army's baggage over the hilly areas by land. , and can easily be robbed by the other party.
But it would be too time-consuming to conquer the Shu army camps one by one in this way.
Moreover, Zhuge Liang has great experience in building camp defenses, which will also cause greater casualties to his soldiers.
What to do After staying up all night at dawn, the yawning Shu army sentries suddenly discovered a dozen huge bamboo rafts heading downstream in the Jialing River waterway, accompanied by a large number of Viking longships, sterns and other armed ships to cover them.
The sentry did not dare to neglect and quickly reported to the police.
An officer came to the river bank and observed the fleet.
Xuer laughed loudly and said: "They are trying to break the iron ropes blocking the river.
This is too funny.
The Prime Minister has done tests and found that even the iron-wrapped fighting ships failed to break these arm-thick iron ropes. " After all, he still did not dare to order the soldiers to throw arrows towards the center of the river without any hesitation to prevent the other party from approaching the iron cable blocking the river.
Rockets and arrows were shot towards the river one after another.
The ships used for cover have taken fire prevention measures and are not easily ignited.
And those unoccupied bamboo rafts were in the middle of the waterway, out of reach of arrows on both sides.
When the bamboo raft was stopped by the river rope, someone from another boat used an iron hook to pull up the iron rope that had sunk into the water and placed it on the bamboo raft.
Then the things piled on the bamboo raft began to burn.
It turned out that the bamboo raft was carrying flammable things.
At this time, the Shu army knew what they were going to do.
Lu Bu was going to use fire to fuse the iron ropes.
In just half an hour, the iron cables blocking the river were burned.
Lu Bu used the same method to burn three sets of iron ropes in succession.
Finally, Lu Bu's army's warships loaded with infantry and cavalry passed from the Jialing River through the hilly areas in the east of Jiangzhou and entered the Shujiang Valley plain.
At this time, the camps built along the river by the Shu army were cut off from Jiangzhou.
Gao Shun of Jiangjin used the same method to break through the Shu army's defense line, and entered the southwest section of the Shu River Valley with 10,000 infantry.
At this time, Liu Bei was ill and lying in bed, and Zhuge Liang took charge of all military affairs.
After Zhuge Liang learned of this situation, he sent Miao Hua and Zhang Bao each with 5,000 troops to snipe the two forward lines of Lu Bu's army, trying to repel the two forward lines and reconnect with the two lines of defense.
It's just that this is ridiculous, Zhang Bao is too weak, almost vulnerable, and his fighting process is not worth mentioning.
They were quickly defeated by Gao Shun and Lu Bu's vanguard generals respectively.
Lu Bu's army marched step by step and was in no hurry to decisively fight and capture Jiangzhou.
After waiting for more than a month, the Shu army, which had been cut off from the rear, had been running out of food for many days.
The scouts sent by Zhuge Liang finally evaded Lu Bu's patrol and made contact with them.
Zhuge Liang informed them to try to get rid of Lu Bu's army and sneak back to Jiangzhou from the hilly area east of Jiangzhou
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